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TweetYou may have noticed the addition of the Creative Commons logo to the bottom of the left column.   I recently noticed that one of my posts formed the basis of a similar article by someone else but they didn’t provide attribution.  I don’t mind if someone wants to help the geocaching community by reusing my content [...]

TweetIn the last two days I’ve done over 70 caches. So many in a row allows you to see patterns much clearer. The rail trail we were on is very flat and if not snow covered would be fairly easy to walk on.  You could give it a Grandma Terrain Rating.  The trail is not wheelchair accessible [...]

TweetLike many of you I’ve been assigning my favorites since the feature went live on Tuesday.  It turns out that only premium members can assign favorites and you have to have found the cache, DNFs don’t count. Last April I was on a road trip to Northern Ontario and stopped to do a few caches [...]

TweetAs most people know, one of the fundamental aspects of geocaching.com is that every cache gets reviewed prior to being listed publicly.  This policy is in effect to protect the integrity of cache listings.  In that sense maybe the volunteers should be called curators instead of reviewers. There are about 200 volunteer reviewers that act on behalf of Groundspeak [...]

TweetDictionary.com defines theft as: the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use. I mention this because I want to make something clear. Taking someone’s cache and listing it as your own on another site is larceny or to use another word, theft. Geocaching.com has been around for 10 years and some other geocaching sites have been around for nearly [...]